Terraform-Challenge-01.md

Challenge 1 - Basic Terraform

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Pre-requisites

Make sure your machine is set up with the proper tooling: Prerequisites

Introduction

The goals for this challenge include understanding:

• Understanding Terraform basics: init, plan, apply, and state
• Setting up Terraform authentication with Azure
• How to author Terraform manifests using HCL

In this challenge, you will create a simple Terraform manifest and deploy it to Azure. You will save Terraform state in an Azure Storage account

Challenge Part 1: Prepare to store Terraform State in Azure Storage

Using the az cli, prepare an Azure storage account which will hold your terraform state

Learning Resources

• Store Terraform state in Azure Storage

Challenge Part 2: Author a Terraform manifest that creates an Azure Storage Account

Author a Terraform manifest that creates an Azure Storage Account, and returns the required outputs. The manifest(s):

• Must save Terraform state in the storage account created in part 1
• Must take inputs 1) location (eg, Azure region) 2) Resource group name 3) unique storage account name
• Must supply the required inputs via a tfvars file
• The output must return the storage account id

Success Criteria

1. Must meet above requirements and be able to demonstrate a full Terraform plan/apply sequence

Learning Resources

• Maintaining state using the azurerm (Azure storage) backend
• Azurerm Documentation (from Hashicorp)
• Terraform on Azure (from Microsoft)
• Authenticating using the Azure cli
• Terraform Language Documentation
• Terraform Variables